I have a div with some inner content that I need to have an ellipsis when it overflows. I've done this many times on other elements but for some reason this is not behaving as expected.
Also, I left white-space:nowrap; out on purpose because the content then does not break to the next line within the span, as a result I only see 2-3 words before the ellipsis starts. I would like the text to span the entire height of the parent container then have the ellipsis start for content that exists beyond those bounds.
Here is a working Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/sadmicrowave/DhkSA/
CSS:
.flow-element{
position:absolute;
font-size:12px;
text-align:center;
width:75px;
height:75px;
line-height:70px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
.flow-element .inner{
position:absolute;
width:80%;
height:80%;
border:1px solid blue;
top:0px;
bottom:0px;
left:0px;
right:0px;
margin:auto;
text-align:center;
}
.flow-element .long{
float:left;
height:50px;
width:100%;
line-height:12px;
border:1px solid red;
text-overflow:ellipsis;
overflow:hidden;
}
HTML:
<a class='flow-element' style='top:100px; left:50px;'>
<div class='inner'>
<span class='long'>Box 1 and some other content that should wrap and do some other stuff</span>
</div>
</a>
Can someone please help. I need to display as much text as possible within the red outlined span while having an ellipsis when text content overflows the container...
Thanks in advance
you can't apply text-overflow: ellipsis to inline elements (span), it can be used with block elements only (div)
and also use white-space:nowrap; when using text-overflow: ellipsis;
check this, i have converted your inner span to div, just for proof of concept
http://jsfiddle.net/3CgcH/5/
i don't know why you have used span, but as per your logic you can make changes as i suggested
Update:
someone will think that in the question if i put white-space: nowrap; to span element then the text-overflow: ellipsis: is working so may be i am wrong, but it is not the case because questioner has used float: left in the span tag that means the span tag will be converted to a box block and work like a normal block level element, which is also wrong thing to do because if you need the block element behavior then use a block level element
Reference:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#propdef-float
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-ui/#text-overflow
Add this:
white-space:nowrap;
to .flow-element .long
then the overflow-ellispsis works.
I think you will find the problem is caused by having text-align: center;
In my case it helped to set display: block;
Add white-space:nowrap; to your .inner div.
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I am new to CSS and recently reading the specification and having some problems in understanding the vertical-align property.
<div style="border: 1px solid black;">
<span style="border: 1px solid red; padding-left: 1px; line-height: 30px;"></span>
<span style="border: 1px solid red; padding-left: 1px;"></span>
<span style="border: 1px solid red; padding-left: 1px; line-height: 40px;"></span>
</div>
<div style="border: 1px solid black;">
<span style="border: 1px solid red; padding-left: 1px; line-height: 30px;"></span>
<span style="border: 1px solid red; padding-left: 1px;"></span>
<span style="border: 1px solid red; padding-left: 1px; line-height: 40px; vertical-align: top"></span>
</div>
<div style="border: 1px solid black;">
<span style="border: 1px solid red; padding-left: 1px; line-height: 30px; vertical-align: bottom"></span>
<span style="border: 1px solid red; padding-left: 1px;"></span>
<span style="border: 1px solid red; padding-left: 1px; line-height: 40px; vertical-align: top"></span>
</div>
Above code creates 3 div, each of them contains 3 empty inline boxes (spans):
In the 1st div, everything seems fine. All the 3 spans are aligned to the baseline of the line box.
In the 2nd div, after I set the vertical-align property to top for the 3rd span, the first two spans are moved up. And I get lost from here, I don't understand why they will be moved up, according to what rule.
The 3rd div is even more wired to me. I set the vertical-align property to bottom for the 1st span, and it causes the 2nd span to move slightly lower than the 3rd span (this will be noticed when zoom in enough).
The thing I can find in the specification says below, but what exactly are the multiple solutions? Could anyone shed more light on this?
In case they are aligned 'top' or 'bottom', they must be aligned so as to minimize the line box height. If such boxes are tall enough, there are multiple solutions and CSS 2.1 does not define the position of the line box's baseline.
I've also created a fiddle. Please run it in Firefox or Chrome if you are interested.
vertical-align is mostly used for inline element for example img tag, which is commonly set to vertical-align: middle; inorder to align correctly within the text.
Demo (Without the use of vertical-align)
Demo 2 (Using vertical-align)
Ok, so that was a general idea of how vertical-align works with a value of middle.
So, first lets see what are the valid values for vertical-align property.
Credits : Mozilla Developer Network
Now, lets solve your doubt step by step..
In the first example, everything's fine according to you but the answer is no, you are applying line-height to the span which varies, but the fact is line-height is actually not applied as the way you think...
Line height is actually not getting applied
Make it inline-block and it will be applied
You can read this answer for more information, that why using line-height on span is useless.
Moving on to your second doubt, you are having line-height on first span, second span but not the third span so what's happening here? As span is inline with the text and anyways line-height won't play the role there as I previously explained, they are happily aligned vertically with the text, whereas when you use vertical-align: top;, it doesn't move the other two boxes above that, instead it aligns to the top of the text.
See how the vertical-align: top; aligns at the top of the text
Coming to the last example of yours, in here, first span element is aligned to the very bottom as expected, well its correct, moving on to second, you said it's slightly in the lower than the third, because it is not aligned at all, line-height is what it makes that element align vertically center and last, moves a bit to the top, which is infact aligned to the top.
Lets make them inline-block and see how they actually behave..
So I hope you got the difference between all the three examples, but its necessary for you to understand the line-height property and inline-block property as well, also don't forget to refer the answer I shared.
I'm currently developing a site which requires headings as such:
My initial idea was to do this with border-bottom, but how would I limit the width of the border so that it doesn't go all the way across? The border needs to stop when it gets to the text.
Is this possible?
h1 {
background-color: #fff;
line-height: 1;
margin: 0;
display: inline;
position:relative;
z-index: 1;
}
h1:after {
content: '';
display: block;
border-bottom: 2px solid;
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
margin-top: -7px;
}
The length of the border is decided by the size of the element it is bordering. You could create another <div> inline with the text with border-bottom: 1px; and the other borders set to 0. You could then change the margin or width of the <div> to alter the length of the line. Note that you'd have to set a width, because an empty <div> has a width of 0 by default, so won't display.
Another possible (but not recommended) way to do it would be to use a <hr> but these are not well supported in HTML 5, so I would choose the first method personally.
A solution I can come up with is to give the title the same background-color as the page's background, and then to either transform: scale() the title up so that it overflows with the border of its parent, either scale the parent down so that its border hides behind the title's background.
See here for an example:
http://jsfiddle.net/WjRqC/1/
Oh, also, scaling can be replaced by making the title position: relative and moving it downwards a few pixels (and giving it a bit more vertical padding if you don't want the text too close to the line). Actually this is probably a better idea than scaling, because it's not CSS3, so it's more compatible.
Lookie here:
http://jsfiddle.net/7affw/1/
I've been trying Masonry but can't get it to work exactly as I wanted. The elements I use vary in width and height, but all fit in a grid (4 different sizes, all multiple of smallest+margins). I've also calculated a distribution of elements (7 of the smallest, 4 of all the others) that can fit precisely.
However it's rare that masonry manages to fit them neatly, sometimes there's one lurking at the bottom, sometimes several are misplaced. It's always so that in one view I can see what items need to be moved for it to fit.
Is there a way to make masonry more aggressive in moving elements? Or have it go over two times to make sure there are no empty spaces?
You should probably look at masonry's "big brother" Isotope here. Mind you, if you have elements that are sorted in a certain order or fixed in a certain order - and that are wider than a single column width - they can "block" a column at narrow browser widths.
EDIT Maybe this fiddle explains it a bit better. If you look at that one and - while observing the numbers in the divs - you see that the next masonry element up (the red element 5) can not possibly fit in the white square as it must come after element 4; so where it must end up means, that, with only three rows fitting, one gets a white gap. Maybe you can use Isotope's shuffle and/or reLayout methods and sacrifice ordering your elements in a strict order? Best would be a jsfiddle with your issue.
<article>
<div class="tile blue"><p>1</p></div>
<div class="tile black"><p>2</p></div>
<div class="tile tall yellow"><p>3</p></div>
<div class="tile grey"><p>4</p></div>
<div class="tile wide red"><p>5</p></div>
<div class="tile green"><p>6</p></div>
<div class="tile grey"><p>7</p></div>
<div class="tile blue"><p>8</p></div>
<div class="tile green"><p>9</p></div>
</article>
$('article').isotope({
itemSelector : '.tile',
masonry: {
columnWidth: 100
}
});
article .tile {
display: block;
float: left;
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
font-size: 3em;
font-weight: 700;
padding: 0 6px;
color: #fff;
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
border:1px dotted black;
}
article .tile.wide {
width: 200px;
}
article .tile.tall {
height: 200px;
}
.tile.yellow { background: yellow; }
.tile.red { background: red; }
.tile.blue { background: blue; }
.tile.black { background: black; }
.tile.grey { background: grey; }
.tile.green { background: green; }
To expand on Dan's answer, having just had this problem myself, it seems that Packery is a more up to date; much more maintained version of Masonry - from the same author. It's not clear to me why both projects exist as separate entities, with only typos fixed in the latter.
The good news is - it's almost totally a drop-in replacement. The only change I had to make (other than names masonry->packery where used) was to remove an option, because it is the default and only option in Packery.
That was isFitWidth: true, my feeble attempt to make Masonry pack things something close to how nicely Packery does without any options at all.
Another nice change with Packery is that gutter: x applies to vertical as well as horizontal gutters. In Masonry, this was horizontal only - though trivial with margin-bottom in CSS, this felt like a needless hack.
In the image below, you can see i have two tabs help and Instructions, i want to place these two tabs next to each other where the Help tab currently is. When i use the margin-left: property, only the help button moves to the left and the instructions button stays in the same place.
The css i am using to configure this:
.v-csslayout-topbarapplicant .v-button,
.v-csslayout-topbarapplicant .v-nativebutton,
.v-csslayout-topbarapplicant-invert .v-button,
.v-csslayout-topbarapplicant-invert .v-nativebutton {
float: right;
display: inline;
margin-right:0px;
margin-left: 268px;
margin-top: -18px;
padding: 0 3px 2px 0;
line-height: 11px;
}
How can i change the spacing so that both tabs (vaadin components) move together?
You need to make sure both items are wrapped with a div. Then you set the margin-left to that div, not only one of the items.
There's no way of telling in the CSS that you posted which items are being manipulated. If both of these items, "help" and "Instructions", are in the CSS you posted, then you to need to change it so that both items exist as one, meaning in one div. If only one of these items exist in your CSS that you posted, then you have only one of them being manipulated with the CSS, and that one is floating right. Ensure both items are floated in the same direction and they are wrapped. Apply the margin to this wrapper div.
The general structure should look like this:
CSS:
#help, #instructions {
float: right;
}
div#wrapper {
margin-left: 268px;
] /* wrapper containing both items, "help" and "Instructions" */
HTML:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="help"></div>
<div id="instructions"></div>
</div>
I think that you are having some inheritance problems.
I would suggest first checking what inheritance this property is following, and if you still have problems I would then create separate divs for Help and Instructions, where instructions has a different right margin. I hope this helps! This type of problems are stubborn.
I am trying to achieve a layout where items will float like newspaper/magazine article sections. It is something similar as what jQuery's Masonry does. But I was trying to achieve that only using CSS3. I thought perhaps the box display property could do it. Although after trying for few times, I wasn't able to make the items slide down after the parent column width as fulfilled.
Is there any way to achieve this layout only using CSS?
The markup would be something like this:
<article>
<section>...</section>
<section>...</section>
<section>...</section>
<section>...</section>
</article>
Here a section would float left and adjust itself on the columns queue where better fit (and not bellow the baseline of the previous one, as simple float does).
It's possible using CSS columns. Here is a good explanation.
CSS:
div{
-moz-column-count: 3;
-moz-column-gap: 10px;
-webkit-column-count: 3;
-webkit-column-gap: 10px;
column-count: 3;
column-gap: 10px;
width: 480px; }
div a{
display: inline-block; /* Display inline-block, and absolutely NO FLOATS! */
margin-bottom: 20px;
width: 100%; }
HTML:
<div>
Whatever stuff you want to put in here. Images, text, movies, what have you. No, really, anything!
...and so on and so forth ad nauseum.
</div>
Also, I found this site by searching "CSS Masonry" on Google. It was the second result.